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Sesame Street was broadcast for the first time 40 years ago today, and has since become as intimately bound to American life as hamburgers and guns. As such, the show has had a perfect vantage to observe and lampoon most of the great cultural milestones of the last 4 decades (most recently, Mad Men) and [...]

We’ve long contemplated defacing street signs, but aside from the problem that we’re total wusses about this sort of thing, we keep living on blocks that already have funny names and wouldn’t really gain anything from being defaced. We used to live on Somass, which we suppose could use and E in there, but it [...]

No doubt you’ve heard the tragic news of the events that unfolded at Fort Hood yesterday, a place so remote and different from our daily lives that we struggled to picture what the largest military base in the U.S. might actually look and feel like. As we always do, we turned to cinema for some [...]

The celebration FAIL is possibly the most embarrassing if it’s happening to you, and often the most satisfying if you’re a spectator, because what’s better than watching obnoxious victors get some swift comeupance? Epic Carnival deals out some bubble-bursting pain with their listicle of the 12 Best Celebration Fails, and we’ve got a couple more [...]

Earlier this month (October 2) we celebrated National Denim Day by wearing nothing but clothes made of denim (even denim underwear, which you’ll find below). For Lee Jeans, who started the national day of celebration in 1996, it’s a day to raise money for breast cancer research, but for us it’s also a day to [...]

Today is World Food Day, a completely ridiculous and nebulously vague holiday. Aside from sending food to those in need, we’re not sure how to celebrate. Except, maybe, by eating worldly foods. We’ll get right on our planetary feast with these 12 Globe-Shaped Foods.

And to think, several trillion years ago it was just a few [...]

We haven’t thought about pole-vaulting in ages, not since we accidentally flipped on the track and field competition on TV during a long-ago summer Olympics, or maybe it was during junior high school gymnastics… At any rate, pole vaulting is a rather ridiculous-looking sport that we’ve never considered practicing, and are less likely to consider [...]

Evidently we’re somewhat obsessed with advertising and commercials, so we try to refrain from posting them too frequently. Occastionally, though, we’re assailed by such a rush of stunning new ads that we just have to share their artistry and vision, which is why we’ve assembled these 12 Trippy New Commercials, beginning with what might also [...]

Sadly, we’ve never been to Japan, but if their taste for themed and simply spaced-out hotel decoration is anything to go by, we pretty much belong there.
So we’re going to start planning our trip right now, and being that we’re largely ignorant of Japanese culture and history (a shortcoming the journey will hopefully remedy), we’re [...]

As you may have heard, Polish-French director Roman Polanski was arrested over the weekend while arriving at the Zurich film festival in Switzerland in relation to a case from over 30 years ago in which he was convicted of having sex with a 13 year-old girl (who has subsequently forgiven him). We wish people would [...]